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The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be played June 12 through July 13 in Brazil. The tournament features 32 teams at 12 venues in nine host cities. Spain won the 2010 World Cup, its first, and Italy won the 2006 cup, the country's fourth title. Full Coverage.

SOCCER:Virginia senior midfielder Morgan Brian was named the 2014 U.S. Soccer Young Female Athlete of the Year. This year, Brian has led the Cavaliers to their second consecutive NCAA Women’s College Cup semifinals and helped the U.S. win the CONCACAF...

Young shooting phenom Sarah Osborn of Hampton has earned a ticket to the World Cup season opener in Changwon, South Korea, in early April.
Osborn, 15, will be representing USA Shooting in the women's 10-meter air rifle competition. It will be her first...

Running:Victor Flemming edged Rich Saunders for the top men’s time and Leia Lautzenheiser ran the top women’s time at the Bacon Street Run for Mental Health 5K at Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg.
Flemming finished in 16 minutes, 12.99 seconds, and...

Move aside, World Cup. Hold your run, baseball. Take a seat, summer-league hoops. Training camp is about to begin. The Washington Redskins (3-13 in 2013) will be holding a training camp for 2 1/2 weeks at the Bon Secours Washington Redskins Training...

The world saw a great deal of focus on the sport of soccer last month with the World Cup being played in Brazil. Each of the participating teams entered the competition with the same record, and as we know, only one would be able at the end to call...

Although Tim Howard did everything but score a goal himself, Team USA has been eliminated from the World Cup. The tournament goes on, and there figures to be plenty of drama (along with flopping and offside calls).
But for many here in the States, the...

Catch the World Cup semifinal match between Brazil and Germany at 4 p.m. Tuesday July 8 at Tucanos Brazilian Grill in Newport News.
Tucanos is hosting a viewing party with the game being shown on a large projection screen.
Tucanos...

America's sporting obsessions are reserved for prime time and/or weekends. Pro football, college football, NASCAR, the World Series of Poker.
Oh, there are exceptions. Early-round NCAA basketball tournament games on Thursday and Friday afternoons....

Colleges:Men's soccer:Ryan Zinkhan scored off an assist by Virginia Beach’s Eric Bird in the second minute of extra time Friday night as No. 3 Virginia posted a 1-0 home victory over No. 25 Old Dominion in the season opener for both teams. ...

Like millions of people across the globe, I've spent many hours over the last month watching soccer's World Cup. Although I've always been a big sports fan, I've never closely followed soccer until early June.
I don't think I knew the names of more...

Some were family promotions, one an obscure find, still others logical choices. Yet no matter the approach, Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage and his senior staff have done an extraordinary job hiring, and retaining, quality head coaches,...

Rowing:
Virginia's varsity eight made it to the quarterfinals of the Royal Henley Regatta in England, beating British colleges Warwick and Eton, before losing to Harvard.
The Cavaliers' group includes two-time All-American Scott Stuard of Newport News,...

Mia Hamm headlined a group of three former members of the women's national soccer team who came to Ft. Eustis to sign autographs and meet with military families on Sunday.
Along with her former teammates, Kristine Lilly and Tisha Venturini-Hoch, Hamm...

During her four seasons at William and Mary, Grace Golden rewrote the school record book in her sport.
That sport is lacrosse, and limited post-college opportunities in it mean that after becoming just the third player in Colonial Athletic Association...

When Briana Scurry stuffed that penalty kick and Brandi Chastain ripped off her jersey, it was the summer of 1999. Brittany Hammons was 6 years old, but she remembers.
This year's run, which has the United States women in Sunday's World Cup final against...

By now, you've probably heard the TV numbers for Sunday's World Cup final were through the roof. The national rating was 8.6, which crushed the British Open and even last week's MLB All-Star Game.
What you might not have heard is that of the 56...

One was a tennis player from Illinois, a man with a well-honed sense of fairness combined with a fierce independent streak. The other was a self-described tomboy from Georgia, a woman whose grace and charm made her crusading spirit all the more effective....